This quote hits home in the most grounded, quietly powerful way:
“Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option and not a necessity.”
There’s a huge difference between being alone because you have no choice—and being alone because you’ve learned how to enjoy your own company. Keanu nails that distinction here.
Taking yourself out to eat. Buying things for yourself. Spending time alone, not because you’re avoiding others, but because you actually enjoy it. That’s a kind of emotional self-sufficiency a lot of people don’t talk about.
Living solo doesn’t mean you’re lonely. It means you’re responsible for your own happiness—and when you start treating your own company as something worthwhile, the world gets a lot lighter.
It doesn’t mean you never want connection. But it means that connection becomes something you choose, not something you chase.
There’s power in that.